Alicia Hall Moran is an award winning mezzo-soprano and collaborative vocal artist with two critically-praised solo albums, Heavy Blue (2015) and Here Today (ranked the #1 album of 2018 by NPR Music/Jazz). Her newest, Coldblooded (2026), in the vein of other alt-operas by Ms. Moran that skate the divides between musical genres and mediums: the motown project, Breaking Ice, and Black Wall Street. With her husband, Jazz pianist Jason Moran, she appeared in Chantal for Washington National Opera, in the musical Family Ball (Boston ICA) and in Work Songs (56th Venice Biennial).

She directed Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration (premiered Carnegie Hall), and conceived the Morans’ BLEED for 2012’s groundbreaking Whitney Biennial. In the same season she made her Broadway debut in The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess (Tony winner »Best Revival«), earning an NAACP Los Angeles Theater Award nomination for her subsequent portrayal of Bess on National Tour.

Moran is a noted collaborator inside visual artworks by Rosa Barba, Joan Jonas, Ragnar Kjartansson, Christopher Myers, Liz Magic Laser and Simone Leigh. She also performed in an acclaimed dance production by choreographer Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company’s.

Recording Gabriel Kahane’s emergency shelter intake form in 2020 with Oregon Symphony was a career highlight. Additional appearances include San Francisco Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra London, Philadelphia Orchestra, and many others. She was a Ford Foundation Art of Change fellow, and is the recipient of a Jerome Hill Artist award.